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A progressive design-build team comprised of a Turner Construction Company and E.E. Cruz joint venture, along with Arcadis, the Bjark Ingels Group (BIG), Scape Landscape Architecture and WSP was selected by the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) for its North/West Resiliency Project. The North/West Resiliency Project aims to expand and enhance Battery Park City public… Read More
Lee County plans a phased reopening of beach parks with the overall goal of working alongside local, state and federal partners to progress as quickly as possible, while ensuring safety for the community and the best use of taxpayer dollars. Lee County Natural Resources is overseeing the restoration of the natural elements while Lee County… Read More
Officials in Edgartown have started to dig up sand from the bottom of Edgartown Great Pond as its salinity levels have hit a critical low. On Feb. 2, the town put its dredger out on the pond, a popular spot for fishing and swimming, as waters hit four feet above sea level. “We’re three-quarters of… Read More
With the Miss Katie successfully completing a 10-day dredging event for Hatteras Inlet’s Connector Channel, the Dare County Waterways Commission focused on proactive steps to keep the Connector Channel and the other channels that link to Hatteras Inlet open for the long term at their monthly meeting on Monday, February 13. “The Dare County Task Force and… Read More
Drive through Maurepas Swamp and it may appear lush and thriving. But over the past century, the swamp has been slowly dying. New trees are few and far between, and the ones there are struggling to stay alive. If the trend continues, Louisiana could lose one of its largest freshwater swamps and a major buffer… Read More
As the only statewide elected official from the Mississippi Gulf Coast, I have been actively involved in monitoring the potential impacts of the proposed Mississippi River Sediment Diversion (MRSD) projects in Louisiana’s coastal master plan. I am thankful the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (MDMR) and the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) teamed up on… Read More
Fairfax County is holding two public meetings this week to discuss the future of Lake Accotink Park after a new analysis of a multiyear plan for the lake found dredging to be too costly and disruptive. The analysis determined that the annual cost to dredge and maintain Lake Accotink over the next 25 years would… Read More
Dredging at Dysart’s Great Harbor Marina will now start on Feb. 21 and continue through March 31. Work was originally set for Feb. 6 through March 23. Operations will be conducted daily from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., with approximately six round trips of material disposal to the Eastern Passage Site in Blue Hill Bay,… Read More
A permit request for a temporary dredge pipe about 7,500 feet long has been requested by Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay. The requested maintenance dredge pipe and booster station is for maintenance dredging to access a disposal area the Navy originally planned to take offline while a permanent pipe was rerouted. The Navy changed plans… Read More
Dredging is set to wrap up in and around the Channel Islands Harbor later this month. Crews are still working at the entrance to the harbor. The $15 million U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project has contracted with Manson Construction to remove sand. The sand is being pumped from the harbor down to the beach… Read More
The plan to carry out a major dredging operation to save Lake Accotink is not expected to go forward, Braddock Supervisor James Walkinshaw reports. New cost estimates make the project untenable. Instead, the county will start over with the development of a new Master Plan for Lake Accotink Park. Without dredging, the lake will eventually disappear and… Read More
Following the adjusted rates of select boat slips at the Belmar Manutti Marina, the Harbor Commission is working to implement routine dredging at the marina to address existing problems regarding “undesirable” boat slips that it has had difficulty renting out due to their poor conditions, according to Councilman Mark Levis. The councilman said that the… Read More
With their plans to process dredged soil at a rail-connected industrial site on the Thames River on hold, Massachusetts-based Cashman Dredging and Marine Contracting is now pushing to develop the rest of the 165-acre site into a complex of industrial buildings. Cashman Vice President Allen Perrault presented a conceptual plan to the Ledyard Planning and Zoning Commission… Read More
Sandwich Town Manager George H. (Bud) Dunham gave the board of selectmen some bad news about sand on Thursday night. For several years, the town has been asking the US Army Corps of Engineers to dump the sand from the Corps’ periodic dredging of the Cape Cod Canal onto Sandwich’s eroding beach. The town also… Read More
SAND has been extracted from Lough Neagh for more than a century. Workers initially used shovels to remove sand for use in building projects. But over the decades, extraction has become a major business. Companies now use suction hoses and dredgers more than 60 metres in length to remove more than a million tonnes of… Read More